Legendary football coach Joe Paterno, university president Graham Spanier, and several others have been fired in the wake of allegations of sexual abuse at Penn State University (my alma mater); economist Lucas Papademos has been sworn in as the interim Prime Minister of Greece, a job that not only doesn't pay enough at this point ... but can't pay enough at this point; GOP golden boy Rick Perry may have torpedoed his chances at the Republican nomination when he suffered a brain freeze in a debate and couldn't remember one of the government agencies he proposed eliminating; the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction - the so-called supercommittee - continues to flounder in partisan finger-pointing and useless bloviation less than two weeks before its deadline to produce ... something; and the Air Force faces a moral and public relations nightmare after disclosure that body parts of fallen service members had been cremated and dumped in a landfill at the Dover Air Force Base mortuary.
I don't know about you, but a bit of Cartoon Saturday would be pretty welcome about now...
Trust Wall Street to practice reverse alchemy on your behalf ...
Falling home values plus anti-tax movements have left many school systems desperate for funding and looking for creative ways to save money ...
It's been a bad week to be a once-proud graduate of Penn State ...
Advancing technology meets up with classic movie scenes ...
And ...
Dog lovers understand this one ...
You have to pick the right person for the job ...
Well, this is about the degree of enthusiasm I'm ready to muster most days ...
It's probably a good thing Honest Abe was elected before the Supreme Court pulled a fast one with its Citizens United decision ...
And finally, if you're bothered by all those useless, job-killing environmental regulations, fear not! The GOP is ready to ride to the rescue. Not your rescue, of course, unless you're a major corporate campaign contributor ...
And that wraps up another week. Yesterday, we honored our veterans with proudly-displayed flags, parades, and soaring rhetoric ... today, we're back to proposals to save money by cutting back on VA hospitals and long-term care for our wounded vets. Perhaps we can convince the Supreme Court that our veterans are actually corporations ... then they'd be considered people.
You've gotta love political logic.
Have a good day. More thoughts tomorrow.
Bilbo
Maybe that our way out. Incorporation.
ReplyDeleteThis was a week filled with bad news -- the horrors of the Penn State and the body parts stories lent a gloom to it all. I reallyliked the mordant execution cartoons: a little bit of gallows humor is totally apropos. And cowboys, too, must watch those caps. No shouting in the bar.
ReplyDeleteLet's have a better week!
As always, great cartoons! But what is the last one with the slop with helium about?
ReplyDeleteHeidi, that last cartoon was just meant to put a silly twist on the serious topic of contaminated foodstuffs. I thought it was pretty good, but I guess it might have been a bit on the abstract side.
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